CVE-2009-0071

Published: 8 January 2009

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 and earlier 3.0.x versions, when designMode is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a certain (a) replaceChild or (b) removeChild call, followed by a (1) queryCommandValue, (2) queryCommandState, or (3) queryCommandIndeterm call. NOTE: it was later reported that 3.0.6 and 3.0.7 are also affected.

Notes

CVEs in Firefox are tracked in the xulrunner source packages. The
mapping of xulrunner sources to firefox is:
xulrunner (1.8.0): firefox (1.5) - Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
xulrunner (1.8.1): firefox (2.0) - Ubuntu 6.10 - 8.04 LTS
xulrunner-1.9: firefox-3.0
xulrunner-1.9.1: firefox-3.5
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and 10.04 LTS uses the embedded xulrunner and not
the system xulrunner-1.9.2, so it is tracked in the firefox source package.

Status

References

• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0071
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Bugs

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456727
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472507
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448329